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By paying L$5000 a month people can become a Supporter, helping the 1920s sim not just survive but also to thrive.
Thanks to their generosity I can justify spending even more time than I already do running the place but it also helps me invest in the future by continuously improving and updating the sim but also work on other new exciting projects like Time Portal and one day 1940s London.
It brings a bit of security to a very insecure and uncertain career.

To thank these Supporters membership of their club comes with several benefits, like increased land impact allowance, a portrait in the gallery but also access to some exclusive locations.

But I wanted to do more so I’ve decided to make make being a supporter even more rewarding!

For starters, I’m combining the 1920s Berlin Support program with the Time Traveller’s Society membership, a brand new initiative I’m creating for Time Portal.
It works exactly the same as the Berlin Supporters program, but you join both automatically.
So once you become an 1920s Berlin Project Supporter, you also become a member of the Time Traveller’s Society, that means you’ll get to enjoy the benefits of both clubs but without your fee going up.
You’ll still pay L$5000 a month, but get to enjoy double the benefits.

1920s Berlin Supporter benefits;

Portrait in the Amtshaus

50 prims to use in Berlin or extra on top of on your tenant prim allowance

The option to rent 100 or 200 extra prims.

Exclusive access to the Long Term Tenants & Supporters Club Room

Exclusive use of the Hotel Adlon penthouse

No eviction for a week after being behind on rent in stead of 3 days.

Time Traveller’s Society benefits;

Portrait in the Time Machine Laboratory, once the to be build Time Traveller’s Club opens, the portrait will move there so everyone can see who the honoured members are.

50 prims to use in Time Portal
For instance to rez props for a photo-shoot, to decorate a home you rent there or maybe just to use for a little private skybox to work in.

The option to rent extra prims.

Exclusive access to special Society member only events, such as sneak preview of new Time Portal areas, a tour of a new exhibit, etc.

And once more, if you join one, you automatically become a member of both!
So you will get the benefits for both clubs regardless of which one you join.

Yes, you Berlin Supporter now have 50 prims to use in Time Portal (if you can’t rez yet, let me know!), a great excuse to rent a place or hotel room if you haven’t already.

To become an 1920s Berlin Supporter pay L$5000 to an available Supporters portrait at the Amtshaus on Alexanderplatz.

I can’t believe that it has been 8 years since that evening in 2009 when I opened my club and had our first little 1920s Berlin themed party in a tiny skybox.
I didn’t expect much of it, I had only been in SL for a week when I started building and I had no idea what I was doing.
But the theme somehow managed to attract the right crowd and within no time a vibrant community of creative, fun, interesting and exciting people started to grow and populate my simplistic pile of prims.
This in turn motivated me and soon I wanted more than a little square with a cinema, shops and club floating high up in the sky.
So I started to improve my building skills, organised more events, did more research and slowly but surely a themed skybox became a neighbourhood and eventually a real city that would withstand the test of time.

It is impossible to explain how much the 1920s Berlin project means to me and I am always touched and excited to hear that it also means a lot to so many others.

On the 30th of May 2017 we’re celebrating the 8th (!) anniversary of our sim and we’re going to celebrate with a week of events!

We hope you’ll visit and be part of the celebrations, if you don’t want to change your avatar or outfit, don’t worry.
We end our celebrations with a Relaxed Rules day where we have no dress code and everyone (but naked people, Nazis and naked nazis) is welcome.

Below you’ll find the schedule of events.
Please note that certain events, times and dates may still be subject to change and others may still be added.
Feel free to join us in the Berlin group chat or join our Facebook group to stay up to date.

All times are Second Life time.

Tuesday 30th May

2pm annual dance under the Brandenburg Gate with a show by Sonatta Moralesta Morales and with DJ Myron Byron!

3pm Fireworks

Wednesday 31st May

1pm Soapbox airplane race for children

2pm Opening of the Biergarten at the back of Der Keller

4pm Ice cream social at the KaDeWe, free ice cream for all, children welcome!

Thursday 1st June

2pm Open Stage at the Biergarten

4pm Party at the Supporters Penthouse room in the Hotel Adlon, only for supporters.

Friday 2nd June

1pm Opening ‘Zur Lindenwirtin’ club for “after hours entertainment”

2pm Special celebration dinner at Hotel Adlon

3pm Joaquin Gustav performs live music in the Adlon mirror ballroom.

6pm Party at the ‘Zur Lindenwirtin’ club for “after hours entertainment”

Saturday 3rd June

11am Miss Berlin pageant

1pm Flapperettes Anniversary

2pm Eldorado

Sunday 4th June

12pm (noon) Official opening of the new Library

2pm The long-awaited Grand Opening of a new art venue!

3pm Special surprise just for Long Term Tenants and Supporters at the Amtshaus on Alexanderplatz

Monday 5th June

2pm Party in the Volksbad swimming pool.
Join us at the public baths for a wild party in the pool.
Swimming suits will be provided.

4pm Social at the KaDeWe Oyster bar with free bottles of special anniversary champagne!

Tuesday 6th June

All day: Relaxed rules day
On this day everyone is welcome to visit our sim and take a good look around and see more of the sim than you’re usually allowed to see.
Several of our tenants will also open the doors to their private apartments and an ‘Open House’ sign will show you where you can enter and explore how the people in the city live.
We also relax our dress code so you can come in modern clothes or as a non-realistic avatar.

Let us know your favourite spot in the city, it can just be your apartment or that street corner where you first met that special person, maybe just the bench where you sit and enjoy life pass you by.

The rules;
-You can adapt, improve or play with the snapshots in photoshop or with other software.
-No nudity, adult subjects or anything that is against SL rules.
-No modern (post 1920s) subjects, clothes, objects, etc.
-Snapshot must be taken in the 1920s Berlin Project sim.
-Photo may be used by us for PR.

-Contest closes on June 10th, pictures received after this date will not be judged.
-Winner will be announced on this blog on the 13th of June.

Dear Berliners, I wish you all a merry Christmas and thanks to Linden Lab’s generousity I can give you a lovely gift.

During Primsmas I gave all tenants 5 extra prims to decorate their homes with.
Today I double and repeat that offer!

So on top of those 5 prims, EVERY tenant in Berlin gets another 10 prims for free.
Just in time for Christmas decorations or to rez those much needed extra blankets on your bed.

You don’t have to do a thing, they will be manually added to each rental today.
If you think you haven’t received them yet by new year’s eve, let me know.

I am also renewing and increasing the option for tenants to rent more prims.
So if you’ve already rented all the prims you could and will use these extra 10 new prims up in a flash, you can still get EVEN more prims.

Pay attention, I mean achtung;

If you’re a regular tenant you can rent another 50 (!) prims for 4 L$ per prim per week.

If you’re a supporter you can rent another 100 (!) prims OR 200 (!) prims for 3 L$ per prim per week!

So, just to make everything clear to people who get brain hurt when numbers are involved;

Every tenant gets 10 prims on top of their limit

Every tenant can rent another 50 prims for 200 L$ a week.

Every supporter can rent another 100 prims for 300 L$ a week.

OR Every supporter can decide to rent another 200 prims for 600 L$ a week.

It does not matter if you’ve already used last months Primsmas offer!
This is a clean slate offer for everyone.

Want to make use of this offer and raise your land impact in Berlin?
Just send me a message inworld.

When Father Primsmas handed out the extra prims I decided to be careful and see how many people in Berlin wanted to raise their limits.
After all Berlin has over 100 tenants and if I want to be generous for everyone, we’d soon run out of these new prims.
I just wanted to see how things would go.

After a few days it has become clear that most people are fine with the prims they have and even if more tenants want to take me up on the offer, we’d still have lots and lots of prims left, even though Berlin is not yet finished and I want to build lots of other stuff, we’re not reaching the bottom of the barrel just yet.

So I am now very happy to finally be able to send a Primsmas gift to those Berliners who are Supporters.

Supporters are Berliners who pay an extra L$5000 a month to support the project, in exchange for this they get a portrait at the Amtshall, access to an exclusive penthouse room at the Hotel Adlon, to a little cottage in Tiergarten and they also get 30 extra prims on top of their limit.

These supporters mean a lot to the city, they have provided me and the community with a financial buffer and some security.

But I’ve always felt I wanted to do more to show my gratitude to the Supporters of Berlin, 30 extra prims is of course nice, but thanks to Primsmas I can now raise this number.

From today onwards every Supporter in Berlin will receive 50 prims on top of their rental limit.
That is 20 prims extra to decorate and play with.

If you want to become a supporter, check out the Supporters Gallery in the Amtshaus on Alexanderplatz 1 and click the sign.

Already spent your free prims or the prim raise you added to your rent?
Hold on, there will be more prims related news in a few weeks.

Recently Linden Lab announced that they were going to raise the prim limits everywhere in Second Life.
Rumours quickly spread that this change would happen after Thanksgiving and this indeed turned out to be the case.

Today is Primsmas!

Every sim in SL will have more prims available and this means of course, that we in 1920s Berlin and Tiergarten park will suddenly have more to play with as well.

This will mean that I can make Berlin even prettier/dirtier by adding more details but also by being a little more relaxed about the land impact of the buildings I make.

To celebrate this wonderful holiday I am giving every address in Berlin 5 extra prims on top of what you’re renting, for free.
It doesn’t matter if you’re a long term supporter who lives in a fancy house or someone who only just moved into the city and who is living in a stinky attic room.
You now have 5 extra prims to decorate your home with!

Supporters are given 20 extra prims on top of the 30 prim bonus they already get.
Read more about the supporters bonus by clicking here.

On top of this I am also offering you the option to rent more prims.

Every tenant can now rent 25 prims extra for 100 L$ per week (which will be added to your rent) per address!

Every tenant who is also a supporter has the opportunity to rent 50 prims extra for 200 L$ per week!

Tiergarten tenants all get 20 extra prims for free and if they want they are able to rent another 100 prims extra for 300 L$ per week!

So enjoy your 5 extra prims and if you want to take advantage of the extra prims for renting offer, contact me inworld and I’ll take care of the paperwork.

I’m being a little careful with handing out prims and renting them out because Berlin has a LOT of tenants and if everyone wants to raise their limit we’ll run out very soon.
And I also plan to spend a few on making the sim better and keep a few in reserve for special events.
But mostly I just want to see how things go first.
If everything goes well and we still have lots of prims left, I may repeat Primsmas.

Just before winter strikes, rain reached Berlin.
It goes on for days, making life miserable for many but also cleaning the dirty old city, preparing her for the white blanket of winter.

It will rain in our sim till Christmas eve and then it will start to snow.
Enjoy the autumn look of our city and the neighbouring Tiergarten park.
Setting it up has taken a LOT of time and work but I think it was worth the annual effort.

Come and enjoy this weather while you can, before the city turns white with snow.
Although it doesn’t make Berlin any less laggy, it does make it look amazing and brings with it some fantastic photo opportunities and gallons of atmosphere.

The rain consists of mesh blocks with weather textures on them, they may get in the way of things you want to click, such as doors.
Try getting as close to the door as possible, zoom in or if all that fails, right click in stead of left click.

If your computer finds it all a bit too much and SL slows down beyond what you find acceptable, turn down your draw distance.
And don’t worry, next month the weather system will be removed again.

From now on any visitor who wants to explore 1920s Berlin in style can simply rez one of our 1920s cars for free and drive around!

You can find the rezz sign right outside Station Berlin Alexanderplatz.

Be careful, these cars are temporary rezzed, they will vanish again after about 30 seconds or when you get out.
So they are perfect for a tour around the sim or to get you to a location fast but you’ll have to walk the way back.

For tenants this changes a few things as well.
Due to work pressure and lack of resources, the Police has been forced to stop checking and providing people with driving licenses.
So for now you will no longer need one to be able to drive a car in Berlin.